3 volunteer efforts that could use your time

Thursday

Apr 11, 2013 at 6:37 PM

Museum needs your help

Your mission: Help run the Regional Military Museum What you’ll do: Volunteers are needed for accounting work, greeting visitors, answering phones, sending membership reminders, keeping up the books, taking inventory, maintaining the museum’s scrapbook and cooking at events. They are also needed to set up booths at events, answer questions about the museum and drive the museum’s Jeeps to events. Help is also needed to maintain the museum’s vehicles and boats.How long you’re needed: Volunteers can help as briefly or as long as they like.Where: The museum is at 1154 Barrow St., Houma, though volunteers are also needed at events the museum participates in throughout the community, such as antique car shows.What’s in it for you: The museum is almost entirely run by volunteers, said the museum board’s president, C.J. Christ. To maintain the locally based history of the military and wars, volunteers are needed to maintain the museum.Contact: 873-8200

Your mission: Help employees and patients at Leonard J. Chabert Medical CenterWhat you’ll do: Work in the gift shop, do office work, help patients.How long you’re needed: Volunteers can help as briefly or as long as they like.When: Volunteers would primarily work during office hours, though they can work after hours as well.Where: 1978 Industrial Blvd., HoumaWhat’s in it for you: Volunteers eat free and get free tuberculosis tests and free flu shots.Contact: Lisa Braud at 873-1322 or Aimee Daigle at 873-1817

Your mission: Set up and run The Courier presents the 5K Run for Excellence and Cajun Food Fest. What you’ll do: Set up booths, serve food and beverages, teardown booths, clean up after the festival, help others register and check-in, and man the kids’ corner, info booth and entrance gate.When: May 11. Some volunteers begin setting up as early as 9 a.m., and some stay as late as 10 p.m. Info: Individuals and groups are encouraged to volunteer.How long you’re needed: Volunteers can work for as brief as a two-hour shift to as long as a 10-hour shift.Where: The race takes place throughout downtown Houma, though it is based at 7861 Main St. What’s in it for you: If you choose, you can both race in and volunteer at the 5K run. “Our volunteers are a vital part of this event, which was voted last year as the best local fundraising event in the community by the public,” said the event’s volunteer organizer, Suzanne Nolfo Carlos. “And if you’ve attended in the past, you know why. It is a fun, family-oriented, good time.”Fees: If you are only volunteering, and not running, you must pay $10 to register. If you are participating in the run, the volunteer registration fee is waived.Contact: Call 868-5881 or email tfae@bellsouth.net or tfae2@att.net.

— Compiled by Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski

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